Eat to live, don't live to eat

My dad used to always tell this to me when I started noticeably gaining weight and it used to piss me off so bad. But I am a junk food junkie. I LOVE food. Love love love food! I love to cook and if I could bake I would do that often too. It's become a pretty bad obsession to me, almost like I have to be eating constantly. It's weird because even when I have eaten what should be plenty of food for a meal, I will still feel like I'm starving. I don't know if I'm actually hungry or if I just have this overwhelming urge to eat.

Let's talk about my weaknesses:

• Diet Coke - since I'm breastfeeding it's Caffeine Free Diet Coke, but it's a soda nonetheless. And even though I love water, I could suck down at least 6 of these a day if given the opportunity
• Fast Food - ahhhh my love of fast food is a huge down fall. I get the combo meals, I get them as large as they go and I get 6 packs of mayonnaise for my french fries. One fast food meal for me is probably the same amount of calories I should eat for two days!
• ICE CREAM! Oh boy do I love ice cream. My favorites being Rocky Road, Moose Tracks, and Strawberry Cheese Cake. This love of ice cream might not be a problem, except when I sit down with the entire container, I usually eat about half of it or more in one sitting.
• Popcorn - I eat at least one bag a night. Some nights I will skip dinner and eat 3 or 4 bags of it! The next day my fingers are swollen from all the sodium.
• Pizza - the more cheese the better! My favorite pizza is pepperoni and if I can get feta cheese on it I'm much happier. Frozen pizzas made at home get handfuls of extra cheese on top. I can wipe out a frozen pizza in one sitting. Stuffed crust is a big favorite too!
• CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!! What woman doesn't love chocolate?!?! In nearly any form it's just irresistible to me!
• Cheese - Not the fancy cheese that goes with wine, I love cheddar, colby jack and mozzerella, provolone...if there's something that gets cheese, it gets twice as much cheese or more when I make it!

So now that I'm on this candida diet, I can't have any of these things. The difficult part is quitting all of these things at once! I know it will get easier as I go along, but the first week will be difficult. Wish me luck!!